This week’s kitchen sink for March 6, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses layoffs due to AI, the “practical ability” standard, Anthropic’s sudden popularity & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for March 6 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,002 AI hallucination cases and counting. But as I discussed in this post, hallucinations by US lawyers aren’t as bad as you think.

A “Practical Control” Decision Rejects the “Legal Right” Standard: Michael Berman covers a case on the EDRM blog that involves possession, custody and control and “applied the ‘practical ability’ standard that I favor” over the “legal right” standard. The issue was whether Wellpath’s employees had possession, custody, or control over Wellpath’s Report (Wellpath went bankrupt and was no longer a party). Find out what happened here!

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools: Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by “nearly half” in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping changes AI tools are having on employment. The bad sign for employees everywhere? Shares in the payment company soared more than 25 percent in after-hours trading. Ruh-roh.

The Pricing Pulse: Generative AI-Assisted Review Insights from the Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey: After publishing insights on Forensic Collection, Examination, and Testimony, Data Processing, Hosting, and Project Management, and Document Review, Rob Robinson is rolling out the results of the Generative AI-Assisted Review portion of the survey. I’m sure nobody cares about that one. 😉

Pentagon Got Help From Claude in Iran: “Ya fired, Anthropic! But, before you go, can you help us with starting this war?” 😉

Anthropic’s Claude is suddenly the most popular iPhone app following Pentagon feud: Say, you don’t think the two things are really related, are they? 😉

Alabama man pleads guilty to hacking, extorting hundreds of women: A cautionary tale on how clever and devious some cybercriminals are. A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors) over a three-year period. Which means he started when he was either 18 or 19. He impersonated the targets’ friends and used other tactics to trick his victims into handing over account recovery codes and passwords, then used the stolen credentials to take control of their Snapchat, Instagram, and other social media accounts. Another guy also pleaded guilty to hacking nearly 600 women’s Snapchat accounts using social engineering to steal private nude photos that he later sold or traded online. Yeesh!

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn’t So Great in a Crisis: A tool billed as a way to plug your medical records into ChatGPT and receive health advice is drawing sharp warnings from researchers: it underestimated the urgency of care in just over half of cases where doctors said hospital treatment was needed immediately. It’s just a flesh wound! 🤣

Shift Happens: 5 Ways to Handle Change as a Lawyer: See what they did there? 😉 Seriously, though, this is a nice, short and to the point article discussing five ways for lawyers to handle change gracefully and with less stress. You can do IT!

“The Fire and BPA’s Preservation of Evidence”: Michael Berman is “on fire” this week! 😉 This case he covers on the EDRM blog discusses spoliation of both a physical site and contractor emails, as well as failing to properly prepare a Rule 30(b)(6) designee.

Maximize Your Impact at Legal Tech Conferences Today: In this timely post on the ACEDS blog, Maribel Rivera discusses goals for different types of attendees to legal tech conferences, including: Litigation Support & eDiscovery Managers, Attorneys, Forensic & Technical Professionals, Legal Operations & Corporate Professionals, Sales & Marketing Professionals in Legal Tech and more!

Cybersecurity Implications of the 2026 Middle East Escalation: When Cloud Infrastructure Becomes a Target: Rob Robinson notes that on March 1, 2026, a fire broke out inside an Amazon Web Services data center in the United Arab Emirates after unidentified objects struck the facility—marking what appears to be the first time a major American tech company’s cloud infrastructure was physically damaged by military action, according to Reuters and multiple industry analysts. This is just one instance in a cyber campaign that some cybersecurity analysts, including researchers at CloudSEK and commentators at Infosecurity Magazine, have described as one of the largest coordinated digital offensives in history. War is everywhere these days and data centers (and the people who work in them) are vulnerable.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for March 6, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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